Just realised that there was a draft I started last Monday morning, but never really any further than that blogging last week….. Mostly after the disaster that was the week before with BB being ill, it was nice to be back to normal, though I think it has taken a while for BB to get back to her normal sleep patterns. It’s slightly awkward at the moment though as she finds it hard to get through the day without nap (yesterday, she fell asleep while we were reading on the sofa at 4.30 and didn’t go to sleep until we went to bed.) Even if I get her to take nap earlier in the day she still takes awhile to get to sleep at night. If you wake her up in the middle of her daytime nap to stop her sleeping to long then she is just grumpy for about an hour until she wakes up properly.
The girls spent ages this morning putting glitter onto the cards they had made with Helen last week. Well, SB mostly, BB spent ages spreading glue over the sheets of newspaper. (BTW, those upside down squeezing ketchup bottles make good PVA bottles). This seemed to take up much of the morning. Other than that, in the afternoon, spent a good while on the sofa with SB reading and looking through one of those cutaway type books about modes of transport. So much talk about motorbikes, engines, the Orient Express, ships, why the Titanic sunk
In between there has been lots of playing – esp. the animals and the toy shop stuff, though there do tend to be arguments over the till, they are both playing together very nicely a lot of the time now, and SB has spent ages playing with various decorations from the playroom Xmas tree, standing by the tree whilst long impenetrable stories are enacted
Same nap issues going on here too! And I love the ketchup bottle idea – must pinch that one!!
Josie has never been a consistant napper but she’s given up totally now. WAIL!
I always found bathing them helped to wake them up enough to get through the next couple of hours. It can be a hard transition, Ernest took ages over it.
Hmm, might give that a try Alison. Never had quite the same problem with SB, we stopped her daytime naps pretty early, but she usually seemed to go through the day ok.
BB is quite cute though, she comes up demanding cuddle, gets on your lap, and falls asleep in a couple of minutes – did it a 3.30 this pm, had an hours nap, and didn’t get to sleep until past 9.30 and that was with me almost pinning her down to the bed